Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention

Joshua James Kassner

Explains why the international community should have intervened in Rwanda

A new approach to the intersection of human and sovereign rights that is of tremendous moral, political and legal importance to theorists working in international relations today

Challenges the immutability of the right of non-intervention held by sovereign states, assessing when it becomes right for the international community to intervene militarily in order to avoid another Rwanda

Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention

Joshua James Kassner

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Description

Kassner contends that the violation of the basic human rights of the Rwandan Tutsis morally obliged the international community to intervene militarily to stop the genocide. This compelling argument, grounded in basic rights, runs counter to the accepted view on the moral nature of humanitarian intervention. It has profound implications for our understanding of the moral nature of humanitarian military intervention, global justice and the role moral principles should play in the practical deliberations of states.

Conclusion: Application of the Reformed Normative Framework and Concluding Remarks

Notes Bibliography Index

Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention

Joshua James Kassner

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Author Information

Joshua James Kassner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Baltimore. He has published articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Journal of Global Ethics, Contemporary Political Theory and the Human Rights Review.